Title: Autograph Letter signed by Joseph Banks, to John Vaughan, a lawyer in Philadelphia Author: Banks, Joseph Place: London Publisher: Date: May 3, 1792 Description: 2 pp., on 4-page lettersheet folded to form an envelope, addressed & docketed on p.4. 9x7½. Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences, needs a good Philadelphia lawyer to assist a friend, "Your Brother Mr. B. Vaughan has been so good out of friendship to me, to recommend to your care the process (?) against a certain John Thomas who having swindled his neighbors in Wales out of all the property they would trust him with has left a wife & family wholly unprovided for & carried the money with him to Philadelphia..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light soiling and slight aging; very good or better. Item number: 202669
Title: Autograph Letter signed by Joseph Banks, to John Vaughan, a lawyer in Philadelphia Author: Banks, Joseph Place: London Publisher: Date: May 3, 1792 Description: 2 pp., on 4-page lettersheet folded to form an envelope, addressed & docketed on p.4. 9x7½. Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences, needs a good Philadelphia lawyer to assist a friend, "Your Brother Mr. B. Vaughan has been so good out of friendship to me, to recommend to your care the process (?) against a certain John Thomas who having swindled his neighbors in Wales out of all the property they would trust him with has left a wife & family wholly unprovided for & carried the money with him to Philadelphia..." Provenance: A West Coast institution. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light soiling and slight aging; very good or better. Item number: 202669
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